Froebel College of Education / Coláiste Oideachais Froebel

Higher Diploma in Education Primary 

The Higher Diploma (Primary Teaching) is a full time eighteen-month course held in the Froebel College of Education for persons with third-level degrees. The course enables third-level graduates to train as primary teachers. Persons who successfully complete this course will be recognised by the Department of Education and Skills as fully trained teachers for employment in any class in Primary Schools.

UPDATE 23 January 2012: The letters of offer for places in the course beginning February 2012 have been sent out.  

If you wish to receive an application packet from Froebel College for the 2013-2014 H.Dip course, please send your contact details including your postal address by email to admissions@froebel.ie.  We are able to send out application packets only after the course and the entry requirements have been sanctioned by the Department of Education and Skills.  Thus, if the course is permitted to proceed again next year, we may hear from the Department of Education and Skills in November or December of 2012 that the competition is open again, with classes at Froebel College beginning in February of 2013.  

To help those who have already applied, we will leave the following documents on the website until the selection process for this year's group has been completed. For the Dublin Centre, which coordinates the competition for Froebel College, St Patrick's Drumcondra, and Marino Institute of Education, the interviews and oral Irish Test for eligible applicants will be held on Monday, 16th and Tuesday, 17th January 2012. Candidates will be allocated a set date and time; regrettably, there is no flexibility to change the set date and time. Interview letters will be posted early in the New Year. If you do not receive a letter by 12th January, you should immediately contact St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, which coordinates applications for the Dublin Centre.

 

 

Advertisement of the course in the national newpapers

Important Notice for all applicants

Foirm Iarratais

Riachtanais Iontrála na Gaeilge

Cover Letter from Froebel College Admissions Office

English Application Form

Department of Education and Skills Entry Requirements and Procedure for 2012

Criteria for General Interview

Treoir do mharcáil na scrúduithe i labhairt na Gaeilge

Froebel College 2012 Brochure

Information on College Fees

Appeals Procedure

Próiseas Achomhairc Iontrálacha 

 

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